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Goal:  The purpose of this Wiki is to provide resources for our program and academic teachers who are looking for opportunities to integrate their curriculum.

Featured lesson plans from //Ohio ORC//:
Marketing and Language Arts Description: In designing a lesson to promote effective word choice in students' writing, the object is to start with something familiar. In this mini-lesson, students begin with an examination of evocative car names that require them to use their imagination to generate ideas about the cars based on their names. Following a class discussion, students work in small groups to explore the various meanings of words used to name cars. This lesson provides opportunities for students to define and explore the concept of connotation, examine how word choice affects meaning, and write vivid, connotative language as part of a description. Detailed lesson procedures and support materials are available at the website.
 * Avalanche, Aztek, or Bravada? A Connotation Mini-Lesson **

Put the Heart into Mathematics: Cardiac Output, Rates of Change and Accumulation ﻿Description: ﻿This four-part activity explores rates of change and accumulation in the context of measuring the amount of blood being pumped by a heart. In the first part, Make a Conjecture, students think about the mathematics involved in determining the amount of blood being pumped by a heart. They identify the kind of data that could provide this information, and they conjecture what the results of such data collection might look like. A movie segment of the procedure used by doctors and veterinarians is included. In the second part, Gather Data, an experiment using a CBL, an aquarium pump, and a temperature probe is described, with a sample data set provided. In the third part, Analyze the Data, the flow rate is calculated using equations for concentrations, amount of flow over a period of time, and accumulation of these amounts. The fourth part, Reflect on your Work, includes discussion questions and applications of these ideas and techniques in other contexts.
 * Health Sciences and Mathematics **

﻿Public Safety and Science A Bad Day for Sandy Dayton This promising practice resource is designed to help students understand forces and motion while reconstructing a rear-end auto accident that occurs outside their classroom building. They explore the relationship between speed and stopping distance; and reaction time and stopping distance.  This is a good example of problem-based learning. Students are likely to be highly engaged in the activities outlined in the lesson. This lesson allows students to apply their knowledge in a real world context.

=[|__A Significant Influence: Describing an Important Teacher in Your Life__]= ====All of us have had a teacher who has made a profound difference in our lives—someone who changed our lives, made us think more deeply, set our feet on the right path. Perhaps it was a teacher we met in a classroom, but it could have easily been a coach, a youth group leader, a family or community elder, religious leader. In this project, students write a tribute to such a teacher, someone who has taught them an important lesson that they still remember. The personal essays that students write for this lesson are then published in a class collection. Because writing about someone who has been a significant influence is a typical topic for college application essays, the lesson’s extensions include resources for writing more traditional, formal papers.====

===**Building Trades, Electrical Technology and Science ** ===

Using Electricity on the Job

====This project-based learning unit focuses on electronic and magnetic phenomena. Students explore how energy is harnessed and how electricity is produced and used in industry. Students conduct a variety of hands-on laboratory investigations as well as collaborate with the City Electricity Company (CEC) to develop publicity materials. Students choose to create a slideshow presentation, brochure, or Web site format that includes information on how electricity concepts and tools are used in a specific job and demonstrates learning based on state standards and unit objectives. ====

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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> ﻿Frankfurter High: Hot Dog Sales
===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> Students explore the problem of deciding how many hot dogs to buy for each home basketball game in the face of uncertain demand. This problem is representative of the general problem of managing perishable inventories. Activity sheets guide students through a simulation intended to assist with decision making. Homework problems and extension activities with all answers are also included. ===